OmahaBlueDog gets a free meal at Olive Garden

[Tess Anderson]

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Piker, but I don't get the breastfeeding reference:

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 So we went to Olive Garden today
There was a festive family occasion to be celebrated.

No, there was no breastfeeding while I was there (at least none that I noted).

So, they have two dishes on their menu that are pretty similar. One is a dish that consists of steak medallions topped with gorgonzola served over fettuccine. the other is steak medallions encrusted with parmesian served over a bed of tortelloni. I ordered the first one. My meal came. I was hungry. I started eating. I got about half way through when a very contrite server came over to announce they brought me the wrong entree. They brought me the second entree by mistake.

They could have simply kept their mouths shut. I told them it was no problem; I was enjoying what I'd been served.

Instead, I got to keep the "wrong entree" and received what I ordered in a to-go box for no additional charge.

It's not winning lotto, but it's little things in life that sometimes make me happy. 

[GOBUCKS]

Love Olive Garden, Carrabba's, Macaroni Grill, Buca di Beppo.

DUmpmonkeys love to say any chain restaurant is crap, but of course they're morons.

The only difference between them and Italian restaurants that charge twice as much is the price.

[Big Dog]

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Piker, but I don't get the breastfeeding reference:

He sounded disappointed.

[sybilll]

I misread the headline as ObamaBlueDog, and I assumed he WAS the entree.

[Freeper]

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Piker, but I don't get the breastfeeding reference:

Breastfeeding at olive Garden is a running gag at DU. I'm not sure what started it, but I assume there must have been a news story of someone breast feeding at an Olive Garden.

[DLR Pyro]

You should have given the "free" meal to a homeless person you selfish prick.

[obumazombie]

You should have given the "free" meal to a homeless person you selfish prick.

He's homelessist.

[NHSparky]

Olive Garden...bleah.  Microwaves and warming plates. Bertucci's is light-years better, to say nothing of the plethora of outstanding Italian places in the North End, up Route 1 through Danvers, into Portsmouth and into Maine. Hell, there's a little hole in the wall place in Barrington that puts virtually any Italian chain place to shame for close to the same price.

[Revolution]

Their braised beef, and tortellini. 'Nuff said. 

I will ALWAYS stand up for Olive Garden. I could eat their Pasta Fejule all day with breadsticks for dippin'.

[docstew]

Love Olive Garden, Carrabba's, Macaroni Grill, Buca di Beppo.

DUmpmonkeys love to say any chain restaurant is crap, but of course they're morons.

The only difference between them and Italian restaurants that charge twice as much is the price.

I refuse to eat at Olive Garden anymore, not since there was an outbreak of Hep B here in Fayetteville, NC, that was traced to one of the kitchen staff.

[vesta111]

Olive Garden...bleah.  Microwaves and warming plates. Bertucci's is light-years better, to say nothing of the plethora of outstanding Italian places in the North End, up Route 1 through Danvers, into Portsmouth and into Maine. Hell, there's a little hole in the wall place in Barrington that puts virtually any Italian chain place to shame for close to the same price.

A place called Momma D's just before the Sara Long Bridge into Maine was the best of the best.   It is still there under new management--------

We went for years to that eatery, they had a huge bowl of salad with a dressing to die for, bread sticks  an entire meal to leisurely much on and have a cocktail of two.  The food if ordering an entree was on a huge plate few could finish 3/4 of it.   

About 10 years ago it sold out to new management,  unfortunately the recipes did not go with the sale.  We stop perhaps every 2 years since but leave disappointed, just not the same. 

We did find by accident a restaurant in D.C. that had been in the family since 1939.   WOW, my parents may have eaten there.  Hubby who was raised on Italion food cooked by his grandmother was ecstatic,  first time in 50+ years had he eaten this kind of food, straight from the Old Country.   

Have to remember when eating Italian food there are 4 kinds of regional cooking all different from the other. Then there is the bastardised cooking that spread about the world according to  the taste of each country.   

[VivisMom]

Love Olive Garden, Carrabba's, Macaroni Grill, Buca di Beppo.

DUmpmonkeys love to say any chain restaurant is crap, but of course they're morons.

The only difference between them and Italian restaurants that charge twice as much is the price.

I love Buca, if only for the kitschy decor. The food is decent, but the atmosphere keeps me coming back.

Maggiano's is my favorite. Almost as good as the food I had in Italy.

[NHSparky]

I love Buca, if only for the kitschy decor. The food is decent, but the atmosphere keeps me coming back.

Maggiano's is my favorite. Almost as good as the food I had in Italy.

There was one at South Coast Plaza when I lived in SoCal.  Huge waits every time we went there.  It was okay, but not worth waiting two hours.  Buca wasn't bad if you had 3-4 people, other than the one time the Buca in Huntington Beach first opened.  Sat there for OVER two hours and got NO food.  Told the manager as we were on our way out the door. 

THAT was the only time I've ever felt the need to get a free meal from a restaurant, and the manager came through.

I still can't fathom how there's an Olive Garden in Times Square when there are literally a hundred places better than it within a 10-minute walk.

[hillneck]

Breastfeeding at olive Garden is a running gag at DU. I'm not sure what started it, but I assume there must have been a news story of someone breast feeding at an Olive Garden.

That breast feeding incident happened here in Indiana a few years ago.  Wasn't a super big deal the women was breast feeding in Olive Garden and was asked to cover up or leave.

[vesta111]

That breast feeding incident happened here in Indiana a few years ago.  Wasn't a super big deal the women was breast feeding in Olive Garden and was asked to cover up or leave.

Insane these folks, are they all Gay that are jealous of the woman using their breasts for what God intended ??

NUTS, this is not about public nudity, not about sex,  not about Boobies on display for no reason,  this is about human life.

Has anyone been thrown out of a restaurant for picking their nose, scratching their butts, burping, sneezing or farting ???

As the Libs may ask, is this an assult against woman and motherhood ?????    What the big company's that manufacture the baby bottles and formula are at war with woman who choose to breast feed ?????

I have no problem with a woman feeding her child in public, to demand cover up is to place the woman into the position she is doing something shamefull out of the sight of decent folks.  A God intended act is now to feel shame.

To me there is nothing so beautiful then a baby suckling on the mothers breast, be the mother human, a horse dog, cat or dog.      Whats the matter with people that find disgust at seeing a baby anything being fed ???

[Ballygrl]

We live in the US version of the Italian food capital of the world (the NY tri-state area) and would you believe the Olive Gardens have like a 1 hour wait on the weekends to get in? I do like the food, but we have Italian Restaurants up the wazoo here.

[obumazombie]

We live in the US version of the Italian food capital of the world (the NY tri-state area) and would you believe the Olive Gardens have like a 1 hour wait on the weekends to get in? I do like the food, but we have Italian Restaurants up the wazoo here.

Up the wazoo. What a great name for a restaurant. Wasn't one of the enlightened ones complaining about how bad the spaghetti dinner fund raisers were ? Up the wazoo couldn't be any worse.

[Revolution]

Vesta strikes again.

There was one at South Coast Plaza when I lived in SoCal.  Huge waits every time we went there.  It was okay, but not worth waiting two hours.  Buca wasn't bad if you had 3-4 people, other than the one time the Buca in Huntington Beach first opened.  Sat there for OVER two hours and got NO food.  Told the manager as we were on our way out the door. 

THAT was the only time I've ever felt the need to get a free meal from a restaurant, and the manager came through.

I still can't fathom how there's an Olive Garden in Times Square when there are literally a hundred places better than it within a 10-minute walk.

I saw like, 7 McDonald's when I was there, and I didn't go everywhere. They probably have a restaurant of every chain just in Times Square. Let alone Manhattan as a whole.